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OSCE Special Representative publishes human trafficking report on Bosnia and Herzegovina
VIENNA, 1 August 2013 – In a report issued today, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, recommended that the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina take additional steps to fully implement its OSCE commitments in the fight against human trafficking...
Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking in focus of OSCE training in Turkmenistan
ASHGABAT, 24 July 2013 – Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking crimes was in focus of an OSCE-organized training course that concluded in Ashgabat today... ()
New report sheds light on trafficking for organ removal in OSCE region
VIENNA, 9 July 2013 – A research paper on trafficking for the purpose of organ removal – one of the least addressed forms of trafficking in human beings – was published today by the OSCE...
OSCE report links human trafficking and torture
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, on 25 June 2013 launched a ground-breaking research paper that connects human trafficking and torture and other forms of ill-treatment...
OSCE Special Representative, at conference in Vienna, links inequality, globalization and trafficking
VIENNA, 25 June 2013 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, today discussed financial, social and legal factors related to migration, inequality and trafficking at an OSCE-hosted conference on preventing modern-day slavery...
Illegal organ transplants and commercial child adoption focus of anti-trafficking training co-organized by OSCE in Kazakhstan
ALMATY, 20 June 2013 - A two-day training seminar for police officers on best practices in combating the trafficking in human beings began today in Almaty. Participants discussed the detection and exposure of illegal organ transplants, child adoption for commercial purposes, and human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation... ()
Trainers in Ukraine prepared by OSCE will teach social service providers to assist trafficking victims
KYIV, 19 June 2013 - Twenty-four trainers were prepared to upgrade skills and knowledge of social services staff, including state officials and NGO activists, in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking at an event in Kyiv, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) from 17 to 19 June 2013... ()
![A poster for a documentary film on domestic servitude, "Vous etes servis", by Belgian filmmaker Jorge Leon, that was screened and discussed during the 10th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference in Vienna, in 2010.](http://www.osce.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/web/0/0/67447.jpg?1293042198 "A poster for a documentary film on domestic servitude, "Vous etes servis", by Belgian filmmaker Jorge Leon, that was screened and discussed during the 10th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference in Vienna, in 2010.")
Diplomatic community must take responsibility for prevention of trafficking for domestic servitude, says OSCE Special Representative in Kyiv
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at a workshop in Kyiv held from 12 to 13 June 2013 urged the Organization’s participating States to take concrete steps to prevent the little-known phenomenon of trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households...
Participants at high-level OSCE conference in Kyiv call for stronger anti-trafficking action
KYIV, 10 June 2013 – Ways to strengthen the OSCE participating States’ response to human trafficking in terms of the prevention of the crime, prosecution of offenders and protection of victims are the focus of a high-level conference that started in Kyiv today... ()